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“Thus it is that through Eriol and his sons the Engle (i.e. the English) have the true tradition of the faeries, of who the Íras and the Wéalas (the Irish and the Welsh) tell garbled things.”

I take it back. The greatest tragedy of all is Tolkien never putting down any version of a full prose narrative of Eärendel’s story.

I’d forgotten how closer to the Norse conception of dwarves Tolkien’s original dwarves were in how malicious they are.

I think it is a shame most of all that Tolkien never finished a proper rewrite of the Fall of Gondolin narrative. I would have loved to see how he’d have handled the description of the Eldar houses arrayed for war when Morgoth’s forces arrived.